Home Project Search Objects Places Persons & Deities  
 

Search in Objects


(submit with enter)

 

Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4997

TEI-XML-File: https://p612399.webspaceconfig.de/xml/elephantine_erc_db_316246.tei.xml

Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4997
Publication Number ined.
Current Location magazine Assuan
Publication Permission Status permission for publication assigned
Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Excavation team Elephantine, German Archaeological Institute Cairo and Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt
Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 157 and
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) broken at left
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for survey tax on palm groves (γεωμετρίας φοινικῶνος)
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt of the tax farmer Stlaccius, through Pachnoubis, son of Petorzmethis, for geometria phoinikonos for the harvest of year 20, paid by Bienchis, son of Peeis, on account of Pachompatramsnouphis, in year 21 of Antoninus
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion unknown

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
1Στλακκιος Σατορνεῖλ̣ος μισθωτὴς
2ἱερᾶς πύλ̣ης Σοήνης διὰ Παχνούβιος
3Πετορζ(μήθου) βοηθ(οῦ). διέγραψεν Βίηγχις Πεή-
4ιτος? ὀνό̣ματος Παχομπατραμ̣-
5σνούφ(εως) ἱερέως ὑπὲρ γεομετρίας φοινικῶνος
6γενή(ματος) ̣ κ̣ (ἔτους) δραχμὰς τρεῖς, (γίνονται) (δραχμαὶ) γ, καὶ πέμ̣του
7ιϛ (ἔτους) ---. (ἔτους) κα Ἀντωνίνου Καίσαρος
8τοῦ κυρίο̣υ, Φαωφι κ̅ζ̅.
convex
1Stlaccius, son of Satornilus, tax farmer
2of the Sacred Gate of Syene, through Pachnoubis,
3son of Petorzmethis, assistant. Thus has paid Bienchis, son of Pee-
4is, on account of Pachompatram-
5snouphis, priest, for the survey tax of palm groves
6of the harvest of year 20, three drachmas, = 3 dr., and for the fifth
7of year 16 ---. In year 21 of Antoninus Caesar
8the lord, Phaophi 27.
DAIK_4997innen_S2_001
Reserved Copyright
DAIK_4997_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
DAIK_4997-1_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
4269 man Bienchis, son of Peeis and Thinaseptis/Senesentis, daughter of Sansnos Βιῆνχις Πεηειτος Θινασεπτιος, Σενεσέντις Greek, Ancient

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Antoninus Pius 21 Phaophi 27 157 October 24 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

DAIK_4997innen_S2_001
Reserved Copyright
DAIK_4997_S1_001
Reserved Copyright
DAIK_4997-1_S1_001
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316246
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer, Julia Puglisi (metadata)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 316246 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4997), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer, Julia Puglisi (metadata).